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  • Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery

    Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.

    March 12, 2019 – March 6, 2022

    Renwick Gallery

  • Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa

    Rare and precious archaeological fragments are seen side by side, bringing new understanding to complete works of art from the medieval period.

    July 16, 2021 – February 27, 2022

    African Art Museum

  • Jon Gray of Ghetto Gastro Selects

    The Bronx, New York-based creative collective Ghetto Gastro curates the 19th installment in the exhibition series that invites designers, artists, architects, and public figures to examine and interpret the museum’s collection.

    July 1, 2021 – February 13, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia

    Visitors can step into a Tibetan Buddhist shrine, linger at a Sri Lankan stupa, travel with an eighth-century Korean monk and discover remarkable objects in Encountering the Buddha.

    October 14, 2017 – February 6, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Warranted to Give Satisfaction: Daguerreotypes by Jeremiah Gurney

    In 1840, Jeremiah Gurney abandoned his career as a jeweler to establish one of New York City’s first daguerreotype studios.

    June 25, 2021 – February 6, 2022

    Portrait Gallery

  • Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore, 1975-1980

    Of the more than seventy projects funded by the NEA, the East Baltimore Survey was unique for having been conceived, led, and carried out by women photographers.

    July 16, 2021 – January 23, 2022

    American Art Museum

  • Her Story: A Century of Women Writers

    This exhibition drawn from the NPG collection highlights twenty-four noted women writers from the past one hundred years.

    September 18, 2020 – January 23, 2022

    Portrait Gallery

  • Hokusai: Mad about Painting

    Drawing on the museum’s impressive Hokusai collection artworks are being added throughout the summer.

    July 16, 2021 – January 9, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Nature by Design: Cochineal

    This installation explores the enduring legacy of the cochineal insect as a natural colorant and its innovative use among contemporary designers from across the Americas.

    November 16, 2019 – January 2, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion Brand

    The exhibition features more than 35 original watercolor and gouache design drawings by Zuzek to reveal Zuzek’s artistic contribution to the iconic Pulitzer style.

    June 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • The Modernist French Garden: Designs by the Vera Brothers

    This exhibition unites over 20 striking Art Deco drawings for gardens with the 1912 published treatise Le nouveau jardin (The New Garden).

    June 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting

    On view are nearly 40 diverse, exciting paintings from the museum's rich permanent collection that transcend, represent, or subvert conventional ideas of authenticity.

    November 16, 2019 – January 2, 2022

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Nature by Design: Plastics

    From molded tortoiseshell and vulcanized rubber to bioplastic pellets and semi-synthetic yarn, the beauty of natural plastics and design’s achievements with these pliable materials are explored in this fascinating range of objects from Cooper Hewitt’s collection.

    June 8, 2019 – January 2, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • What Is Feminist Art?

    On view are more than 75 vibrant and varied personal statements from artists from 1976 and now that elucidate the contours of feminist art.

    November 26, 2019 – December 31, 2021

    Archives of American Art

  • Visionary: The Cumming Family Collection (Part 2)

    This exhibition reveals the results of more than 25 years of inspired collecting by Ian and Annette Cumming and installed in two parts. Part two, featured here, includes portraits by American artists Jack Beal, Chuck Close and Nelson Shanks. This exhibition is curated by Chief Curator Emerita Brandon Brame Fortune and will be accompanied by a limited-edition publication.

    May 14, 2021 – October 31, 2021

    Portrait Gallery

  • Willi Smith: Street Couture

    In the first museum exhibition dedicated to American designer Willi Smith (1948–1987), over 200 works by Smith and collaborators will illuminate how the streetwear pioneer broke down social, cultural, and economic boundaries.

    March 13, 2020 – October 24, 2021

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020

    Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts.

    October 16, 2020 – August 15, 2021

    Renwick Gallery

  • ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

    ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within 1960s social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.

    November 20, 2020 – August 8, 2021

    American Art Museum

  • New on View: Dawoud Bey and William H. Johnson

    This focused installation features recently acquired photographs by Dawoud Bey in conversation with a painting by William H. Johnson that refer to the Underground Railroad.

    May 14, 2021 – August 5, 2021

    American Art Museum

  • Modern and Contemporary Art

    SAAM’s galleries for modern and contemporary art display selections from the permanent collection from the 1940s to the present. Closed until fall 2023.

    July 1, 2006 – July 12, 2021

    American Art Museum

  • Art Since 1945

    On view is modern and contemporary art, including works from Color Field, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art.

    July 1, 2006 – July 12, 2021

    American Art Museum

  • Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

    Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most important naturalist of the 19th century. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States places American art squarely in the center of a conversation on Humboldt’s lasting influence on the way we think about our relationship to our environment.

    September 18, 2020 – July 11, 2021

    American Art Museum

  • Contemporary Muslim Fashions

    This is the first major museum exhibition to explore the complex and diverse nature of Muslim dress codes worldwide.

    February 28, 2020 – July 11, 2021

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Power in Southeast Asia

    Through a range of local styles, techniques, and materials, the artworks in this exhibition reveal understandings of power in Southeast Asia.

    October 21, 2017 – June 1, 2021

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States

    Every Eye Is Upon Me is the first major exhibition to explore the historical significance of this prominent position through the mode of portraiture. 

    November 13, 2020 – May 23, 2021

    Portrait Gallery


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